iPhone as Bluetooth pedal... it works!

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I'm not in a position to purchase a bluetooth or other guitar pedal. But I don't seem to have a problem putting my iPhone on the carpet at home and using it to trigger apps on my iPad. In this case I am doing a super simple button layout with buttons that are big enough for my toes to hit and linking it up to the app Quantiloop.

In Quantiloop I've chosen the MIDI options that button 1 which fires CC-20 momentary to Record/Play/Dub the currently armed track. Button 2 is another momentary button on CC-21 and arms the next available track. Finally button 3 fades the whole thing to a stop.

Anyway I think it is really cool what this tool can do with a little creativity, even for the simplest tool like I've done. Thanks to Dan & team for making it.

Sorry if this is overly simplistic but I've been looking for a way to trigger Quantiloop for a long time and still keep my fingers on the fretboard and it never dawned on me to use my iPhone with Midi designer.

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iPhone as Bluetooth pedal... it works!
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asked Jan 20, 2018 in Basic by fprintf (140 points)
edited Jan 20, 2018 by fprintf

Always glad to hear success stories, especially on iPhone and that have to do with other, awesome apps, like Quantiloop. Thanks for sharing!

There's a setting for "wrap text" or something in MD for labels, by the way.

Thanks!
Dan

commented Jan 20, 2018 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)

So it might be worth getting it to look a tiny bit nicer and then uploading the layout here for others... your call, of course, thanks!

commented Jan 20, 2018 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)

Thanks for the suggestion, it is a bit of a work in progress. I've made the changes you recommended, and actually had done them shortly after my first post. Anyway I am also using Tonestack by Yonac and may also amend page 2 and 3 to help with that.

commented Jan 21, 2018 by fprintf (140 points)

When I get it to a good place I'll do the community shares post with LAYOUT etc. In the meantime if anyone has any other suggestions I'm very much open to them.

commented Jan 21, 2018 by fprintf (140 points)

That’s great news. At the same time, we’re flirting with the idea of doing an iPhone-only version of MD, which would increase the userbase for this app by a factor of some number greater than one (hopefully).

Good luck, enjoy the tinkering/development!

commented Jan 22, 2018 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)

The current universal application works great on my iPhone now, do you mind if I ask what you hope to gain by going iphone only? I always thought universal apps were the holy grail... though perhaps if you are talking about a less expensive version I would have bought that instead of the full Pro2 since what i needed was connectivity and a few buttons.

commented Jan 22, 2018 by fprintf (140 points)

Yes, precisely, it's just about number of devices and increasing awareness/penetration. It would also serve as a stepping stone to getting these users the iPad layouts to their phones (and that's a significant piece of work).

But this is all theoretical for the time being...

commented Jan 22, 2018 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)

Nice. That's what I'm doing in this simple little thing. Stopping on my phone to add a bass amp! Just one big button that says bass. Socks work. Sorry its not pictured. But its there!

commented Jun 12, 2018 by robwmatthews (180 points)

Fun stuff, thanks for sharing!

commented Jun 12, 2018 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)

iPhone as Bluetooth pedal... it works!

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how to do it?

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